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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has restrained Gujarat and Mumbai police from arresting social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand after their anticipatory bail was rejected by the Gujarat High Court on Thursday. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu directed the listing of her plea for Friday after her counsel Kapil Sibal brought the matter before it. Lawyer Prashant Bhushan too asked the court to intervene in the matter. A team of Gujarat Police and Mumbai Police reached Setalvad's home after her bail was rejected.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today asked Gujarat Police to give social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband the list of documents needed from them in the probe against them in a case of alleged embezzlement of funds for a museum at Ahmedabad's Gulbarg Society that was devastated in the 2002 riots. A Bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and Adarsh Kumar Goel said the accused are also entitled to have the list which the state police has already provided to the apex court.

MUMBAI: Opposing the petition filed by social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband seeking quashing of an FIR against them for alleged misappropriation of funds, Gujarat police today told Bombay High Court that the duo had cheated victims of 2002 Godhra riots and "embezzled funds" collected in their name. This was stated in an affidavit filed by the Cyber Crime Cell, Ahmedabad Crime Branch in response to Teesta and her husband Javed Anand's petition seeking quashing of the FIR lodged in Gujarat and challenging the police's move of freezing their and their trusts' bank accounts operated from Mumbai.

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court today granted protection from arrest to social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband for another six days in a case of alleged embezzlement of funds for a museum at Ahmedabad's Gulbarg Society that was devastated in the 2002 riots. The apex court said it would independently examine on the basis of FIR whether it is a case for granting anticipatory bail or not which has been denied to Setalvad and her husband. "We are not going to quash the FIR," a bench comprising justices S J Mukhopadhaya and N V Ramana said.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the arrest of activist Teesta Setalvad and husband Javed Anand till Feb 19, after a half-hourlong hearing during which advocate and Congress leader Kapil Sibal claimed that the activist couple were being targeted by the ruling BJP for their advocacy on behalf if the victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots. The acrimony spilled over when former ASG Indira Jaising, sitting in the audience and watching proceedings alongside the likes of lawyers Prashant Bhushan and TR Andhyarujina, referred to a "Rs 10-lakh suit" when the state accused Teesta of using NGO funds for buying "branded clothes" and "shoes".

MUMBAI: A former aide of activist Teesta Setalvad has moved the Bombay High Court seeking retrial of the 2002 Best Bakery case alleging that the latter not only fabricated evidence and falsely implicated innocent persons but also "managed" the witnesses. Rais Khan Aziz Khan Pathan , in an affidavit, urged the High Court to direct an appropriate court in Mumbai to conduct retrial of the case and record his evidence. Khan, former coordinator of the Citizen for Justice and Peace, the Mumbai-based NGO headed by Teesta, requested that notice be served on Teesta to explain her conduct and clarify allegations of fabricating evidence in the case.

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court today rejected the petition filed by social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand seeking quashing of FIR lodged against them in Gujarat for alleged misappropriation of funds and de-freezing of their bank accounts. A division bench of Justices N H Patil and A M Thipsay today refused to grant any relief to Teesta and Javed after observing that the jurisdiction to decide on the issue lies with the Gujarat High Court as the FIR is lodged there.

AHMEDABAD: An FIR has been lodged against social activist Teesta Setalvad , her husband Javed Anand , Zakia Jafri's son Tanvir Jafri and two others for allegedly usurping Rs 1.51 crore collected by them for turning Gulbarg Society into a museum, police said. "An FIR has been lodged under Sections 120(B), 406 and 420 of the IPC and Section 72 (A) of the IT Act against Setalvad, Anand, Tanvir Jafri and two others for allegedly usurping Rs 1.51 crore, which they had collected (as donation)

AHMEDABAD: In a relief to social activist Teesta Setalwad , her husband Javed Anand and slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri's son Tanvir, the Gujarat High Court today stayed their arrest till April 23 in connection with the Gulbarg fund embezzlement case. The High Court extended the stay after the state government sought further time to file a reply and assured that it will not arrest Teesta and others till further hearing. Following the state government's representation, Justice Anant S Dave granted the stay till April 23 and posted the hearing on the same day. The High Court, while acting upon the anticipatory bail plea of Setalwad, Anand, Jafri, Gulbarg Society's secretary Feroz Gulzar and chairman Salim Sandhi, had earlier granted the stay till today.